Apologetics: What Is Creationism?

Creationism is a modern movement that has roots several thousand years old. Creationism is a Christian movement based upon the statements in the Bible that the Universe came to existence by an act of Divine Creation, and the name Creationism derives from that. There are both Biblical Creationism and Scientific Creationism.

Creationism is a modern Christian apologetics movement that has roots several thousand years old. Creationism is a movement based upon the statements in the Bible that the Universe came to existence by an act of Divine Creation, and the name Creationism derives from that. It is a powerful movement among those given to Christian apologetics.

History: The western civilization was practically dominated by Christianity for several centuries after Christ. As a result, a divine creation of the universe and hance "creationism" was a given for most people in Europe or in Europe-dominated place, more so for people dedicated to Christian apologetics. However, this domination of the Christian faith and the doctrine of Creation received a substantial challenge from the 1600s onwards. The challenge became acute when Charles Darwin proposed his modern theory of evolution. With that started defection of many from the idea of Creation to that of Evolution. By the end of 1800s a large number of Christians changed their outlook about the Bible and started believing that humans evolved rather than getting here via a fiat creation.

By late 1800s and early 1900s many Christian writers and theologians came up with novel theories like day-age and gap theories to accommodate both evolution as well as creation in their philosophy. Of these, the gap theory won the day by becoming more popular. There as a minority that opposed both these theories and maintained that evolution should be opposed in spite of its popularity and acceptance.

Picture: George McCrady Price

The increasing influence of Evolutionary outlook was seen by many in the church with concern, but very few came forward to defend the idea of Creation from a scientific perspective. However, in the 1930 some Christians started raising scientific objections against the theory of Evolution. Notable among them is George McCrady Price, a self-taught Canadian who became the father of what today is known as the "Flood Geology". Price tried to explain the observables in nature in the light of a Universal Flood, as mentioned in the story of Noah in the Bible. He was widely accepted in conservative Christian circles.

Meanwhile, Evolution Protest Movement (now Creation Science Movement) based in England kept issuing literature of a more technical nature. EPM had a number of eminent scientists and researchers who wrote this material for the layman.

Picture: Henry M. Morris

Practically these two remained the sole major voice for about three decades when two Americans, Henry M. Morris and John C. Whitcomb, came up with a very detailed proposal on the same lines. The late Dr. Henry M. Morris was a scientist, trained in a number of fields in hydrology. Dr. John C. Whitcomb is a theologian of learning and repute. In their joint book The Genesis Flood they proposed that all geological formations can be explained in terms of the flood at the time of Noah. This book can be called as the start of Modern Creationism.

Modern Creationism: Modern Creationism, thus, is a movement among conservative Christians that maintains that life has not evolved from micro-organisms, but rather that it came here as a result of a direct and immediate creative act of an all-powerful Creator. This movement has grown much in the last 50 years, and today there are close to a dozen technical journals, dozens of popular magazines, hundreds of highly technical books, and thousands of popular level books. There are several international conferences and there is also a professional society (Creation Research Society) where one can become a voting member only if one is a qualified scientist as well as a person who affirms the doctrine of creation.

Nice job! Thank you for a clear and concise article. Have you
read any of Michael Behe's work? He explains the concept of
irreducible complexity as proof of intelligent design. Also the
movie Expelled: no intelligence allowed with Ben Stein is good. It
exposes the plight that professors and teachers have if they
believe in intelligent design and how many of them have been fired
or denied promotions because of it.

Posted 102 months ago

Pai Yong Soo

I strongly believe in Creationism. I got stories or facts from
Chinese mythologies and Chinese scripts created from oracles the
latest of these were found written or scribbled in caves some 8000
years ago to support Creationism. I am not a scientist. I have
written a book entitled the Chinese in God's Land to share my
findings by decoding the meaning or the pictographs of certain
Chinese scripts and customary belief and some name callings for a
place and the life system relating to human. However, I also made
some wide guesses out of human experience and a book called
ShanHaiJing which gave me ideas that God might have created things
in progressive stages until finally He destroyed all things which
were of no use. He then created the present world with humans in
His own image. Of course, this would affect my belief that God is
omniscient.

But I just got this idea and I am not sure whether this is a
revelation from God to me.

Well, I must say the article contributed here is excellent. I
hope what is done here now can bring back to senses that life comes
not from evolution but by the creation miracles of God, the
Almighty or Yehehua(耶和华）。

I enjoyed reading this article. I've also enjoyed reading many
of the books written by proponents of Intelligent Design--Behe,
Dembski, et al. This can be considered one of the "front lines" of
apologetics. Our youth are especially vulnerable. Almost every
aspect of their learning--history, science, literature--revolves
around evolution and post-modern relativism.

I have always been of the opinion to have these two schools of
thought should be combined to form a sought of neutral ground
although something inside of me has always opposed evolution I have
never challenged my own beliefs with regard to this. Of late I have
begun to take study into God's Word more seriously to get down to
core fundamentals of these unchallenged ideologies within my own
life and mind. I have realized that from an uneducated point of
view it is very dangerous to just accept the tide's of popular
opinion and while professing to be a Christian but living with
distorted ideologies and theologies within ones own heart can be
just as dangerous. I would like to challenge every Christian
"layman & woman" to take a long hard look at them selves to see
if God's word is truly a lamp unto their feet and a light unto
their path. This article is a good example of inspired writing that
is there to prick the bubble of comfortable personal thought and
philosophy to as to guide you into a deeper study of the matter so
as to test the foundations of your beliefs so as to ascertain if
they will stand in times of question or not.

It is important to study the Word of God and to have a firm
foundation so that you will not bend this way and that with every
new philosophy or every new popular preacher or movement that comes
along. Read the psalms about creation and God's hand in creation.
The glorious beauty of the earth did not just happen by chance and
man did not just happen by chance.

Creation is the direct responds to a higher and an intelligent
being 's act of creation. And that is God. Thank God it is been
proven scientifically today. Evolution will be non existing by the
next century, if Jesus tarries. Because we have people like Dr.
Philip who is committed to this very course. God bless you all.

This is great information! I love having the information about
these two men and will take some time to look up their work. This
is a big topic where I live and I'm looking forward to having more
information on the study of Creationism. Thanks so much!

Scientists don't manufacture knowledge, they only discover
knowledge. Scientists only discover what God has already created.
Science has it root deep in the Bible. God bless you Dr. Philip for
your profound knowledge. You are a principality in God's
kingdom.

I like this article very much, as I believe the truth of the
flood and that God created all that is on this earth , we did not
evolve from apes, I do not like the darwin Theory it is such a
lie.

Posted 95 months ago

Gabriel Popoola

Article is great and very educative. I stand for the modern
creationism. The intellects have failed to proof who else create
the universe other than God Almighty.

Posted 95 months ago

Gabriel Popoola

Strict creationists of the Christian faith usually base their
belief on a literal reading of the Genesis creation narrative while
other religions have different deity-led creation myths. In any way
and by any group evolutionist can be silenced, credit is given to
this body of modern creationism movement which is what apologetics
stands for.

The Christian scientist is an awsome weapon against people who
spend their time trying to figure out a way to explain how
something came from nothing. With all the evidence against
evolution, you would think the debate would be over!

Posted 88 months ago

Ogwal Mike

Thank you Dr.Philip for the wonderful article.Yes its true that
the science of creation can only be fully explained by biblical
evidence. The question of debate should be limited within the
Biblical context.

Dr. Phillip; This article on creationism is impressive. I
learned a lot about the history of the movement and the reasons
that brought creation to the forefront of many discussions on
Christian belief and faith in today's society, especially here in
the United States.

A very great deal of very complex scientific research is being
done today which is providing much evidence in solid support of
creation, with many fine journals being published. While it is
hardly surprising that scientific evidence so strongly supports
creation rather than evolution, unfortunately many scientists
retain a blinkered perspective, and thus much of this research
remains slow in getting into the public arena.

It is extremely hard to find something to add to such an
excellent article. All needed information is here, it has been
written on a way everybody can understand it and it answers most
common questions. One could only wish to have the same writer's
talent as Dr. Johnson C Philip has.

Good Article, Dr. Johnson. I always why people have difficulty
in accepting creationism!! The more we know about the universe and
the human being, the more evident is that there is a God who
created all these!

Very well done. My Bible teaches me that everything started with
God Almighty, (the Trinity) and everything will end with Him, the
Trinity. Thank you for taking this message out to the world, so the
people out there can know the truth. Everyone who read this article
can never turn around and say, " I did not know"

If some one finds a well built house in the middle of a desert,
wouldn't that person ask questions: Who built the house? How? When?
Why? When these questions are asked, the person immediately by
default takes position of accepting the reality that the house has
some relationship with someone.Because that person has not seen
some one around the house physically he/she would not claim that
the house exited by itself. That house is a live witness that it
was built up by some one who has got good intention to shelter. In
the same analogy, because we could not see some one moving around
with hammer, pots, clays, haws around the world as the creator of
this world, we can not claim that lifew exisited on this plant out
of nowhere. That is against at leat to our human intellect. This
beautiful world belongs to an intellegent maker God.

I believe that the creation itself gives us much evidence of a creator, but we humans fallen with a sinful nature will not accept the idea of a creator. as the word of God tells us: a foolish man says in his heart that there is no God.

There is no doubt in easly believing that human was created by God, but many atheist do not see man created as the book of Genisis discribed it more clearer that God made man in his own image. The evolution has caused many problems and division today depending on the school of taught what the individuals sees and believe.There solid evidence to believe that creation is higher as to compare with Evolution.Thanks to Dr philip for this wonderful artice.

It is refreshing to read this article on Creationism. Indeed it is a stock of knowledge awaiting everyone who desires to know the truth about the Bible and Creation without prejudices. I find the references made by Dr. Philip, in the article, to other sources of scientific discoveries as very helpful to persons like me who are interested in responding to questions evolutionists raise against the Bible. Thanks for sharing this knowledge.

Thanks for this article. I enjoyed this short, but factual, even moreso truthful article as I am now studying Christian Apologetics and Creationism. It reinforced some things in my studies.
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I strongly believe in Creationism; that life has not evolved from micro-organisms. If life really evolved from micro-organisms, then how did the micro-organisms come into existence? Whatever has a name has an origin and an originator who can be discovered upon serious research. Whatever is already created is what Scientists are discovering. The world is waiting for Scientists to discover God as the Creator of this beautiful world.

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